More By Artist: E^St
Displaying items 581 to 596 of 596
|
BACH / HANDEL / ALBINONI / VIVALDI
Best of Baroque (including the Four Seasons & The Water Music) Various Artists incl Henryk Szeryng, Heinz Holliger, I Musici, Academy of St Mar [ Philips Duo / 2 CD - released 15/Feb/2001 ] A specially priced double CD |
HANDEL
Handel Jubilee set Various artists incls Academy of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Lynne Dawson, John Mark Ainsley, Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Brandenburg Consort [ Brilliant Classics Masterworks / 10 CD - released 16/Dec/2006 ] Handel highlights must contain the Music for the Royal Fireworks, and the Water Music. In this set a large helping of concerti grossi (3 CD’s) and some flute concertos are added. The oratorio Israel in Egypt is combined with the Messiah and the... |
ORCHESTRAL SPECTACULAR
Orchestral Spectacular (Incls 'Bolero', 1812 Overture & 'Polovtsian Dances') Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra / Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra / various conductors [ Naxos Super Budget Series / CD - released 30/Jun/2008 ] "The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra provide their own Spanish magic" - Essex Chronicle |
BORIS TISHCHENKO
Tishchenko: Concerto for violin, piano & string orchestra, Op. 144, etc. Victoria Postnikova (piano) & Alexander Rozhdestvensky (violin) String Orchestra of St. Petersburg & Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky [ Fuga Libera / CD - released 29/Oct/2007 ] Boris Tishenko's composer's career spans the modest thaw under Khrushchev, the Brezhnev freeze, Gorbachev's perestroika and the great leap into liberal economics under Yeltsin that continues strong under Putin.Though he was Shostakovich's favourite... |
Viktor Lutsiuk, Olga Savova, Fedor Mozahev, Chor des Mariinksy-Theaters St. Petersburg, Orchester des Mariinsky-Theaters St. Petersburg, Valery Gergie
Gubaidulina - Johannes-Passion (St John's Passion) [ Hanssler / 2 CD - released 16/Apr/2003 ] "The work has, in instruments and voices (and especially percussion), a shimmering, ringing, arresting sound that ultimately overwhelms, with climaxes that linger..." - Los Angeles Times |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Ultimate Classical Relaxation (Incls 'Air on a G string', Meditation from Thais, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik & Dance of the Hours) Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) Kyung Wha Chung (violin) Alicia de Larrocha (piano) / Academy of St Martin in the Fields / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra [ Decca / 5 CD Box Set - released 25/Mar/2008 ] This set includes two CDs devoted to the music of J.S. Bach and one devoted to Tchaikovsky. The remaining two contain a sublime programme of music by Dvorák, Barber, Saint-Saëns, Bruch, Canteloube and many more. |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: The Nose (complete opera) Vladislav Sulimsky, Alexei tanovitski, Tatiana Kravtsova / Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg / Valery Gergiev [ Mariinsky SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 10/Jun/2009 ] "Shostakovich was never so obviously the youthful genius as in this brilliant operatic jape" (Recording of the Month BBC Music July 2009) |
GABRIEL FAURE
Faure: Requiem Op 48 / Messe Basse / Motets Westminster Cathedral Choir, David Hill, St John's College, Cambridge, Robinson [ ALTO / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] Top recordings at a special price |
Wiki Baker with the St Joseph's Maori Girls' College Choir
Maori Love Songs (LP) [ Viking Seven Seas LP / LP - released 22/Nov/2016 ] |
|
MESSIAEN
Organ Works (Complete) Willem Tanke (organ) at the St Bavo Basilica, Haarlem [ Brilliant Classics / 8 CD - released 10/Aug/2007 ] A rare release: recordings of the complete works for organ by Messiaen (1908-1992). These 8 CD’s guide the listener through most of the composer’s life, starting with his first published work of 1926 and ending with the 2-CD long Book of the blessed... |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Wind Concertos William Bennett (flute/piccolo) Martin Gatt (bassoon) Neil Black (oboe) / Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner [ Decca Ovation / CD - released 20/Jul/1989 ] The many recordings Neville Marriner made with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and originally released on the ARGO label include several albums of Vivaldi. Here is a selection of wind concertos. |
Yuri Bashmet, viola, St. Petersburg Chamber Choir, Mariinsky Orch. Gergiev
Kancheli - Styx (1999) for Viola & mixed choir / Gubaidulina - Viola Concerto [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 6/May/2002 ] ***** Five Stars BBC Music Magazine (June 02) |
STRAVINSKY
Ballet music: Le Sacre / Petrushka / The Firebird / Pulcinella / Suites no. 1 and no. 2 Yvonne Kenny / Robert Tear / Philadelphia Orchestra under Riccardo Muti / Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields under Sir Neville Marriner [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/May/2006 ] "Marriner's Pulcinella is a joy from first bar to last; how the players enjoy the quirkiness of Stravinsky's scoring" (Gramophone on Pulcinella) |
W.A. MOZART
Requiem Mass, K.626 Yvonne Kenny (sop) Sarah Walker (mezzo) William Kendall (tenor) / Choir of St John's College, Cambridge / English Chamber Orchestra/ George Guest [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] 'George Guests new recording is distinguished by its deliberate tempos but also its very powerful rhythmic momentum and an expressive intensity of a kind one might not expect from a conductor and choir who belong to the English cathedral tradition.... |
